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You Want Gunfire With That?
Dan Hind
‘The end of Soviet communism was supposed to have brought with it the end of ideological struggle and even, according to a significant few, history itself.’
Feeding the Fire: The Political Context of 9/11
Adam Haslett
‘9/11 was the bullet to the powder keg of an already heated domestic conflict.’
At War With Writing About War
Gabe Hudson
‘Perhaps a more precise and academicish moniker for War Literature would be, Suicide Averted In Favour of Writing.’
Unplanned Road Trip
David Guterson
‘I had a dark, journalistic interest in Ground Zero but also, apprehension.’
Somalia Then and Now
Mary Harper
‘Madam, you are a potential terrorist. You and every other person in this room.’
Crossbones
Nuruddin Farah
‘In a world in which coercion is the norm, a human trafficker must have underlings as well.’
In a Land of Silence
Janine di Giovanni
‘She tells me that he died because he refused to be silent.’
The Terminal Check
Pico Iyer
‘The world is all mixed up these days, and America can no longer claim immunity.’
The Politics of Grief
V. V. Ganeshananthan
‘It is a way of humiliating people, to say that their dead are not dead, to say that people are not even allowed to mourn.’
1911, The Other Revolution
Isabel Hilton
‘Anniversaries, of course, can be a two-edged sword: they invite historical reappraisal.’
Memory and Invention
Mavis Gallant
‘When I happened to be working all day, every day, on a story set in the Paris of 1953, I was stunned and bewildered to step outside and discover the shape of the cars, the casual clothing and clean facades of the 1990s.’
